Re: [bug-mailutils] when to expunge in mail program

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Tang Yong Ping <address@hidden> wrote:

>   In mail program, if you type 'd 1'. it will delete the first email,
> but physically it will not be deleted. So which command is used to
> delete an email physically, ie. expunge it.

Err... that depends on the point of view. From the point of view of
"mail" program, any deleted messages are actually expunged upon
receiving "quit" command (In contrast, "exit" does not delete them).
See mail/quit.c for more info.

>From the point of view of mailutils' internals, it is mailbox_expunge()
that does the job.

Regards,
Sergey